I just wanted to see what people think about this:
This thought is taken from my reading of Anne McCaffrey's Pern books(some of the best dragons in sci-fi/fantasy, for those that care), which are based on a colony world cut off from the rest of the galaxy. From a space-faring people, their tech devolves to Midieval-type stuff, because when records are recorded people don't mention certain things. For example, someone who takes plastic, and the fact that something is made out of it and everybody knows that for granted, isn't going to go into detail in a historical record about that technological aspect. 2,000 years later, you have a building that has plastic structural members, and it's a big mystery.
Let's go to the Bible. Written as a religous record, Almost everything in it is somehow related to religion. Since the writers weren't focusing on historical and technological records that they assumed would also be preserved, would they include alot of it in the text? Take the dinosaur thing for instance. If the author doesn't think a detailed discussion is needed because it has little relevance in the story, and they are recorded in detail elsewhere(this record since lost), they don't say much. People condemn the Bible for such things, but perhaps if that dissertation on "giant lizards with tails the size of tree trunks" was lost, what can we say?
Just a thought.
This thought is taken from my reading of Anne McCaffrey's Pern books(some of the best dragons in sci-fi/fantasy, for those that care), which are based on a colony world cut off from the rest of the galaxy. From a space-faring people, their tech devolves to Midieval-type stuff, because when records are recorded people don't mention certain things. For example, someone who takes plastic, and the fact that something is made out of it and everybody knows that for granted, isn't going to go into detail in a historical record about that technological aspect. 2,000 years later, you have a building that has plastic structural members, and it's a big mystery.
Let's go to the Bible. Written as a religous record, Almost everything in it is somehow related to religion. Since the writers weren't focusing on historical and technological records that they assumed would also be preserved, would they include alot of it in the text? Take the dinosaur thing for instance. If the author doesn't think a detailed discussion is needed because it has little relevance in the story, and they are recorded in detail elsewhere(this record since lost), they don't say much. People condemn the Bible for such things, but perhaps if that dissertation on "giant lizards with tails the size of tree trunks" was lost, what can we say?
Just a thought.